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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2803967, member: 83956&quot;]I am very lucky that I am in a profession that allows me to show off and talk about these coins on a fairly regular basis if I choose. I know for many on this board, collecting is a much more solitary and lonely enterprise--reasons why this board is so important.</p><p><br /></p><p>I too suspect that students are most impressed by larger coins. But really, relevance to the subject or text at hand occasions the show and tell, so I&#039;m not sure. </p><p><br /></p><p>And full disclosure: I put an asterisk next to the reference to that Agrippa coin because that one is actually a recent purchase to replace the same type that I had to sell due to a case of bronze disease I could not arrest. (Sold with full disclosure on the bronze disease as well.) More on this coin when I make my 2017 top 10 list!</p><p><br /></p><p>I still haven&#039;t figured out an ideal methodology of passing a coin around the room. I want students to handle the coin out of a flip, but more than once I&#039;ve heard the clink of a coin hitting the ground, and it makes me wince. Perhaps they could handle the coin over a wide tray. Still not sure how to balance showability with safety.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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